WOMEN AND GOTHIC GHOST STORIES
[RADIO-SPECIAL]
A special feature on Woman’s Hour…
WOMAN’S HOUR (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)
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September 18, 2009 “Women and Gothic Ghost Stories”
[BBC RADIO 4: “…Ghost stories have been terrifying us for years—and
the tradition of women and the macabre goes back many years. Women
like Mary Shelley and Ann Radcliffe popularized stories of the weird and
uncanny. By the end of the nineteenth century the ghost story had been
re-defined and developed by women like Mary Braddon and Charlotte
Riddell. Now a collection of stories by Victorian women, who liked to
terrify their readers, has been published. To discuss women writers and
the supernatural Jenni is joined by Patricia Duncker, Professor of
Modern Literature at the University of Manchester, and Mike Ashley,
editor of ‘The Darker Sex: Tales of the Supernatural and Macabre by
Victorian Women Writers’…”]
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